At one point during his historic defeat to the software AlphaGo last year, world champion Go player Lee Sedol abruptly left the room. The bot had played a move that confounded established theories of ...

DeepMind has said it has created the best Go player in the world because it was able to do away with human knowledge and start with a blank slate. AlphaGo Zero begins by playing "completely random" Go ...

The new artificial neural network taught itself to master the ancient game Go within weeks, without any tips from humans. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100 ...

Once Alphabet’s artificial intelligence company DeepMind had masted the ability to defeat the best human Go players in the world, it tried to beat its own best attempts using an approach based ...

While Google's Deepmind is trying to find out if AI can navigate the complex RTS Starcraft 2, machine learning continues to leap over milestones for traditional strategy board games. AlphaGO is an AI ...

Go is a Chinese board game that dates back thousands of years. There are more possible Go moves than there are atoms in the universe so it's been incredibly tough for machines to crack Go. The AlphaGo ...

Google shocked the world in 2016 when AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program created specifically to play the ancient board game Go, defeated one of the game’s top competitors in a five-game ...

Alphabet’s DeepMind has been making incredible strides in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Their AI can create pictures based on sentences, play StarCraft, and explore strange environments.

Google's AlphaGo already beat us puny humans to become the best at the Chinese board game of Go. Now, it's done with humans altogether. DeepMind, the Alphabet subsidiary behind the artificial ...